Edward Snowden

Is anyone else enjoying this guy given the US security services a proper run for their money?!

I can't help but thinking I see a glint in the newsreaders eyes whenever a new angle to the story breaks which suggests he may have done something different to what everyone thought was going on.

Its a bit like that Channel 4 program - Wanted I think it was called - where people had to go on the run from some ex SAS soldiers whilst member of the public helped or hindered them (first series was really good, second series was ruined by a format change - can't exactly remember what they changed but it made it rubbish).

Perhaps we should start setting him challenges to complete whilst avoiding capture - have your photo taken with 4 rogue heads of state would be my starter for 10...

It's great that America - that beacon of freedom, liberty and democracy, will go to any length to track down the citizen who informed the world about their completely illegal and morally bankrupt behavior, and, at best, chuck him in prison for the rest of his life

I'm pretty sure he'll have some sort of 'accident' a few weeks after arriving in Ecuador, either that or an extraordinary rendition, it's not like the US really cares about diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

@UH - I would imagine if they already had him they'd be shouting from the rooftops.

That said I can't see them falling for the oldest trick in the book - apparently it was Wikileaks (who obviously have no vested interest at all in making the US appear stupid) who made a big song and dance about him being on that flight to Moscow and yet half the world's press haven't spotted him there.

It could well be whilst everyone was focussing on his arrival in Moscow he was on a comfy private jet to anywhere but Ecuador!

It is a great shame that some European country's leaders haven't stood up and represented their own peoples voices in all this. What a bunch of weak, self interested tossers they all are, not one of them cares about our liberty's and freedoms.

Is he still in Russia? Should imagine Putin would like a private chat with him. Perhaps he'd want to have some of the tools form his days in East Germany. Mind you I'd have thought the Chinese would keep him to play with.

MSP » It is a great shame that some European country's leaders haven't stood up and represented their own peoples voices in all this. What a bunch of weak, self interested tossers they all are, not one of them cares about our liberty's and freedoms.

Or we have extradition treaties with the USA. If he arrives then they can ask for him. Far easier for him to go somewhere where they can't ask.

So, the Dodd Frank Act rewards whistleblowers for exposing evil badness. Surely he's in line for a whopper of a payout!

Exactly, if Governments hide policy behind secrecy, then they are failing to meet the minimum requirements of democracy. I quite understand the need for secrecy in the details of some operations, but not to hide the broad brush strokes of decision making that show the direction of government ideology.